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"Wadiesdoy, October 4, 1967

MacMillan Bloedel Powell River Limited is setting its cap .
for “‘stick-and-stay” loggers,
| Not only has the, company’s cap been. set ata jaunty and -
ae attractive angle in the realm of working ‘conditions and pay
| scales —but over at Port Clements, on the Queen ( Charlotte .
1 Islands, the cap now has a bright new feather...)

It's a housing. project, designed to attract . loggers oo
I family man status. -

} And- ten of the M-for-modern homes are ready and waiting
for an old fashioned Island housewarming.
a. I was a guest of MacMillan Bloedel Industries last week

| and had an opportunity to see ‘the Fort Clements development,

- first hand. --

Not only did 1 “‘méet: houses: waiting tor ‘people —I also
met people waiting for houses, One faction Js just as eager as
the other. re

“A man separated from his family is not a happy ‘man,” :
7% says Tibor Jando, 35 year old manager ofthe MacMillan Bleedel

' Queen Charlottes division, “Family accommodation has long
= ¢ been at a premium on the Charlottes and we simply decided to
F £ do something about it,
if What MacMillan "Bloedel has done is pretty wonderful, .

A complex of neat attractive homes has lifted the salt-
? Iched face of Port Clements, situated on Stewart Bay on the
- northeast finger of Graham Island. _

ents

Tibor spoke 1 no-
English when
he came here

By RUTH HALLOCK:
This is just a. story about’ a Hungarian immigrant,
we He is a rare man among Cane
Aan aiians.. One who might well put goldfields and also set chokers
= many a native born Canadian] in the B,C, woods, * .
“Some of the adjectives 1

a to shame, .
Mam 6lis name is Tibor Jando, He|learned duing the summer -
fm is 35 years old, Ha came-to| months brought me a bit of dif-
” Canada in 1957, when the Univ-|ficulty when I returned to Univ.
ersity,"’ Tibor recalls with

S ersity of Sopron in Hungary es-
amusement,

, caped as a unit after the ill-
 iated October revolution, Today Tibor Jando speaks with
only the. emallest trace of accent,

: When we first arrived in
f Canada,’ not one of us could
fae speak English,” he said, ;
me There were seventeen of us,
all young students, fresh from
ihe revolution era. Our first
-oqerience: with “Engilsh :wea.:to
Fit all afternoon and evening,
+ Watching television right through
F to the end of the late, late show, |-
it was funny ina way, There we
b all were sitting with our eyes
# glued to the set and we couldn't
i understand a word,""
+ @ * .
im It didn’t take Tihor Jando long
; 5 ip master the language. He spent
me in entire year studying nothing
& but English before going on to
* somplete his education and
yee ceive his degree in forestry
aan engineering from the University
oH of British Columbia,
eee He says he had his bad moments
Lit when the language was still in
me the allen stages. During summer
, months he worked in the’ Yukon

He began hisc career with Macs
Milan Bloedel in 1959 as an en-
gineering assistant. in the

promoted to:

the Queen Charicttes ‘division,

in 1964. Tibor. returned to his
homeland for a visit and while
there he met a charming: Hung.
arian girl and she remained in
his thoughts until the following
summer when he decided to go
back to Hungary for a second
holiday visit.

Needless’ ‘to say the romance
flourished and on his third ‘trip
home in 1966 the tall, lean for-
ester married Magda, a dim-
inutlve slip of a girl and brought
her home to Juskatla,

He will speak two languages,
English and Hungarian, just as
nis father and his mother before
him,

Franklin River division. I te was |
in 1964 a divia a serpent]

- Some of the houses have three bedrooms, others have only

: two. All are slightly different and all are for sale with only
the barest down payment and.no strings attached.

“The company ‘agreement for sale carries no ‘buy-back’”*

- elause and it has no re-sale restrictions, . Port Clements is
not doomed to.the sometimes dubious destiny of. becoming a
“company town’?,” - ..

_. . .Hot-on the heels af a very enthusiastic Tibor Jando, who
is the type of Canadian all Canadiana should be, even though

- his native country” fs-‘Hungary; I opened cupboards. and closets,

colored plumbing fixtures. .

I-dreamed of dozens of bric-a-brac ‘gracing the dainty
shelves ‘-of. attractive: room dividers, and I reached. up to..
touch a crystal chandeller light fixturedesigned togive elegance ,
to‘every dining hour, ~

The male tiembers of the press tour asked the pertinent’: :

questions.
- “How many square feet?*’
‘About 1300. Some are. slightly smaller.’?
_.., “How much does a home like this sell for?’’
. . “An employee can buy a house and lot at an average cost
~ of $18,000, The company subsidizes approximately $3, 600."
‘How stiff are down payments?” _
~‘Seven hundred dollars will put a man into his own home.
and when you consider the government homeowner’s grant of

d plumbing for Cl

By RUTH -HALLOCK —

$500, this could can, an actual outlay of only $200,""

‘Who is eligible to buy?"

‘Any MacMillan Bloedel employee’ at the outset, After .
. ‘that he can sell to anyone who wishes to buy.”

‘Ave they fully serviced?’*

‘Automatic oll heat, full basements, sewer ‘and water.
We put in a 179 foot well ‘to service the complex and are now
negotiating with Port Clements to take it over .and extend it
to provide water service to other restdents here, Water is *

. “What about schools?"

- |: in short supply on the Charlottes.”
-{nspetted. acorn fireplaces, and expressed delight at pastel “|. -

- They only go to Grade Ten on the. Chartottes. This is
. @ problem -for us because Prince: Rupert. school-.district

tells us we can’t have secondary schools until we have the ~ |

‘population, and of course we can’t get the population until

‘we have the schools. .
“Medical facilities?”

. City,

But we’re working on it continually, ”.

“There is a hospital ané two doctors at Queen Charlotte
They’re currently trying to attract a third doctor.” -
“How about communications?** ;

‘The road between Port. Clements and Queen Charlotte

. City is now paved,

At Skidegate you ‘can get a water taxi to |

the Sandspit side where there ga busy alrport,. Also there are
chartered and regular’ B,C, Airlines flights to almost any
- point on the Islands or Prince Rupert. 8. c. Telephone serves ™

-the area.”

Nar en “"" Sane stories stove, lett.

MBPR. LosaIna cAMP on the. Charlottes has | own housing plant to attract family-type loggers.

. There were many more questicis, ‘not
was one from a wag: ‘How come Machilien Bu
' Rayonler wood products ‘in these homes?”

But the ever ready Jando remained ‘fon:plussed as hi .
turned to the timbers with a familiar ‘‘Alaska: Pine’ trade. Fo
mark. ooo
Well it's really quite simple. We don't produce this-.

any builder would.” - : vty
_ 7. Make no mistake however, there's .a lot of home-grown. Mor
-material in the-Port- Clements ‘housing project. And it will ::
be ‘used continually as the development enlarges. Next year”
the ‘company plans:to bulld 15 more houses: and each year:
after that they will addas required. -—
+ " The  Juskatla operation, -a seant eight miles from.
Port ‘Clements, employs 150 men, over one third of whom are
> married and require family housing. -
“Skidegate section has. another 100 men on the payroll .
. many ‘of whom’ will’ seek housing as it becomes available. -:
_. . - Tibor Jando is naturally enthusiastic about ‘the ‘project. |
“He knows most of his menonfirstname terms.. He understands ©
that 8 man separated from his wife and children is a
_ Jonely man. He forsees a tighter shipand a happler work force. .
with’ the: introductfon of good housing. . :

| the work's all donel

RUTH M,

That siniling ‘bundle of friend-
ly radioman, Al: Parfitt, is on
holidays, right about now at his
ranch home -upriver from Ter-
race.-
Acres-to those ih the know.
Wayne Seabrook.is in the know,

Wayne looked about as green as] -
an acre can get-when he finally]:

got towed into Terrace in Par.
fitt’s truck thé.-other evening
after a nice Sunday drive to the
country, And J, Fred Weber is
now an experienced insulation
man,
times by and by, next fall when

middie of November ‘monsoons,
you might donate your services

to ‘Barefoot in the Park”, the
three act comedy now - in ‘Te-
‘by: Terrace | Litto pbefate:

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Ee {CORRECTION S=—

REPORT. FROM PARLIAMENT HILL

Business as usual. without Dief -

* by - FRANK HOWARD, M,P, °

Most everyone else ‘is stil"
the same and.is still in the
House in the same ‘capacity as
before, with the exception of
The Hon. Mike Starr who is act-
ing Leader of the Opposition.

And even Mr, Starr acted in
this capacity when Mr. Diefen-
baker was’ away from the House’
hefore,

Even though Mr, Diefenbaker
was a colourful and imposing
personage. in - Parliament he[

The’ " great: discussion in the

press. these ‘days seems to be
— What is Parliament like with-
out John Diefenbaker? —
’ From the ‘reopening of Pare
Hament nearly every newspaper
that [lookedat posed, and answer-
ed, this question, ©

Fo me, Parliament doesn't
seem to be much different than
it was before, no

He never asked all the quest-

ions, led off on all the debates,

‘used ‘all the ‘invective — no,

there were others: and they are

still here, ;
* @ @

- The past few days have shown

as it was when Mr, Diefenbaker
was the Leader of the Opposition,
Whatever. calming influence Mr,
Stanfield, the new Tory Leader,
will bring to his forces will
have to wait until he ‘gets a
seat inthe House. — °

~ For years our Parliamont has

goes farther:
stays fresh longer ** f
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SAV-MOR BUILDERS CENTRE aed

operated in the cacophonous. at-
mosphere created by the two ald}
line parties raging at eachother,

After years of each trying tof
spear and outdo the other many
of the individual. Members have
become infected with the dislike
which: one party has had for the
other,. a dislike ‘which centered
around the fact that are was in
office and thé other out,

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BEST VALUE

‘H| wasn't the only Member in it, |

that Parliament Is still the same |.

“ene. will be paramount,

“For example,-‘on the sopenine :
day Mr, Pearson was asked about |’

one of his promises of some
time ago to bring in a certaln
measure relating to the price of
wheat, Mr, Pearson bristled and
repHed that things would he better
if he were not reminded of that
matter. Mr, Fulton, who ran for
the ‘Tory Leadership, . asked then
if all ‘of Mr. Pearson's broken

| promises should be forgotten. |

That, of course, is only one
example of many, The point ts
‘that ‘a change -in leadership will
not::necessarily bring about a

change in the. attitude of every-| tre

one: -else, ‘especially when the
others have been combatants for
years,

a |

True, we will oftimes: think
of ‘the position which Mr. Dief-
enbaker -held and the manner in
which he filled that position, but
we..cannot afford the luxury of

7

. daydreaming of things that used

tobe.
We: ‘are here toconductthe bus.

inass_of the Nation: and within |.

afew hours of the opening on
the‘ 25th Mr, Diefenbaker was
the farthest, from our minds be-
cause..we ‘were busily. engaged
in the ‘business at hand, ,

Partiament will be ‘the same
without. : John Diefenbaker, be-
cause..the demands ‘of the mom-

i

hori Nightly in the New Dining. Leung :

The’ Fabulous ;

‘Theatre. .. You will see it Novem-| eg

bee san

Margaret. Van Herds the stage ‘Department of unpremoditated
manager for the production and| bloops,
right about now she is wearing] FBI story on TK Thursday night
a frown, .Why not try shaking aj are still wondering. . The scene

big man with a bad-case of
dandruff, Mare?) -
2 @ 8

Dorothy Sheasby tells us the
last Hometown Jamboree was a
terrific show, Al Kinsman is
one of the most enthusiastic peo-
ple we’ve met in a longtime when
it comes to community effort.
So ts. Jim Lynch, his able assis.
tant in.the Jamboree series, Pro-
ceeds after expenses from the
first. variety, concert were turned
over to the Terrace Arena Asso-
clation last Wednesday, By the
time “you -read.. this < the
second show will ‘be auditioning
for the third. Auditions every
Sunday, 2p.m., Community Cen.

* @ @

A taste of peanut butter

. Better known as Green|

- Oh well —we'll have good]. -

HALLOCK

Len Harrington of the Rupert
Daily News didn't make the scene
for the Juskatla trip-so he ‘ean
have- all the epithets back -for
-keeps. I’m back on the main-
‘land again, Safe, sound (it says} |
here) and dry,

. 8 &

Did you know that CPA serves
apple juice and Peak -Frean cook.
fes during the 20 minute flight
betuven Prince Rupert and Sand-

Bp

Memo to Councillor Campbell
Lane: Those aren’t marbles —
they're bowling balls and you
don’t lose them,. you. dust roll-
em,

J. BRUCE SMITH

/ Chamber head
to speak here

“AtWo.. spectall: gusts. ‘Rive; diss ;
placed, October's ‘regular ‘Cham-

ber of Contmerce meeting... ae

meeting ‘°° -orlginatly
scheduled’ for October 9, will be be
held ‘on Wednesday ‘avenitig, Oo»
tober 11th In order that J, Brace
Smith, president of the B,C,
Chambers of. Commerce; arid Reg
Clark,. manager of the Canadian _
and B,C. Chambers of Commerce
might be heard,

’ The gentlemen will arrive by
car Wednesday afternoon from
Hazelton’ .and . other Interlor
points, The Terrace stopover
is part of a current tour of the
province, aa :
“The Wednesday” meeting will
take place in the Totem Room
of the Lakelse Hotel commencing
‘at & w [' 5: | a

Last week —the week of Sept-
ember 27 to October 4 -THAT
was~ the week that was, not the

ek Was, | the week K that was.

Citizens watching the

is a crazy poker game with a
truly evil Cosa Nostra type shuf-
fling. cards: clammily and guys
betting $50,000 per card and evil
. characters about to charge in on
the smoke-filled room With blaz.
ing machineguns, -At which point
of pulsating. drama, the sound of
one of the TK resident yak birds
lis heard. over ‘the - creepy
background music intoning “THE
SPERRACE HOTEL” We really
.do think it was an off-cue come
mercial. os

Molly Nattress is busy reade.

_ing pantomines for & repeat per-
‘formance sometime during the

entertainment: season of Inast|# |.
Re-|8: «..

year’s successful show,
Member “Jdck and tha Bean-
stalk”? Well this year it-might

be Sleeping Beauty" -and -then|i

again it might be “The Emper-/@.
or’a New Clothes,” Anyway. it
will be a giant ‘sized: blgate,

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- VICTORIA,
fastest ocean floor reader afloat
is working inthe McKenzie Delta,
Beluga, a Hkknot, 20-foot craft
. powered by'a 160-horse-power ine:
boar motor, speeds up ocean
floor survey work in the shallow
delta area. Co

BC, (CP}—The|fl

Ba _ BURING” OUR |
“JUNIOR MEMBER ‘CONTEST. =
TO BRING. IN NEW. MEMBERS.

pe rate SEPT. 15 AND RUNS UNTH a
DEC. 15, 1967 © . :

Ist Prize: C.C:M; Bicycle: . i
2nd Prize: - Eldon Road ‘Race Set

3ed and 4th Prizes: .. .
_ Credit Union Centenitial Banks

@ ONLY JUNIOR MEMBERS ‘ARE f ELIGIBLE
‘Here’ s All You: Dol

Bring in a : NEW Junior Member. + eee
> Point. Bring. ina NEW Adult Member
_ three: Points. -:.°
“TOTAL POINTS. ay DEC.
: New member must t aaree’

“3. months, mr

~. REMEMBER: ‘Your not jut trying fo win oniething
you are introducing | someo the: Cred
Union Movement. | ah

. product and we needed it 0 we went out and bought it just Hke’ ae